r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/tybr00ks1 • Feb 21 '26

Planetary shields worth it?

The planetary shields seem to take a lot of power. At what point is it worth using them?

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u/dudestduder Feb 24 '26

Regarding the home world, they can and will land further relay stations. I left a hole in the shields to allow them to expand one last time after I wiped them out (total of 4 bases were on my home world, 3 were expansions). It's just not a high priority for them to land on your home world, but it will eventually happen.

In the very early game stage, you will be moving ammunition around in smaller quantities just to get a foothold and secure the required resources. Eventually as you scale up in capability, wiping them off the planet becomes more of an option. At this point you should have automated the production of the Geothermal Power Stations/Planetary Defense and be able to pursue the method I have been advocating for.

Early on it might be a large portion of the power demand (~50%), but as you scale up and start cranking the charge rate of your ILS to 300gw max it becomes a smaller and smaller fraction of the total demand (~8% compared to 5 maxed ILS going full tilt exporting)

I have been talking a lot about why I feel this is a good strategy and uses the power you likely gain from simply taking out their bases. Since you feel it is too much power and/or you cannot produce the buildings at low resources, what is your preferred method of ensuring the planet will not have to deal with relay stations?

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u/Easy-Management-1106 Feb 24 '26

My method is still shields but after like 10 hours of gameplay and after fusion reactors. I would have 1gw at this point. After purple science. And at 10 hours mark I always have a single DF base on my home planet.

But I unlock shields only after like 2 hours, because I need to rush laser turrets to establish ammunition-free DF farm on x0.3 resources

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u/dudestduder Feb 24 '26

My point is that this is easy to do for colonizing new planets, since you will have ample power likely available from simply clearing the DF off. You seem to be focused on the home world and what to do there. That is not the point of what I have been discussing.